Sleigh



` i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM II. WINNE, or MERIDIAN, Naw Yon-K. A

SLEIGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,972, dated Februaiy 5, 1884. Application filed November 19, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. WINNE, of Meridian, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sleighs, of which the following7 taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa full, clear, and eX- act description. V i

This invention relates to the class of sleighs designated bob-sleighs, and has special reference to the support of the body on said sleighs. Heretofore the body has been mountr ed on the bolster of the sleigh in the manner as it is commonly applied to the bolster of a wagon. The result was that the bolster and king-bolt by which it is connected with the sleigh were subjected to more or less torsional strain, owing to the rocking motion of the bobs when moving over uneven roads. lIt is this defect which my invention is designed to overcome; and to that end it consists, essentially, in connecting the body with the bolster of the sleigh by an oscillatory bearing, which allows the bob to freely rock in line with the draft without straining the bolster or .kingbolt, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of a bob-sleigh provided with myimprovements. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of one of the means of connecting the body with the bolster.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a bob-sleigh of ordinary construction, and B denotes the body mounted on said sleigh. C is the bolster connected with the bob by a king-bolt, a, in the usual manner. The body B, I connect with the bolster C by oscillatory bearings, consisting of brackets b b, firmly secured to the under side of the body, and provided with an eye or socket for the reception of a trunnion, c, which projects from the end of the bolster C, and is adapted to turn in the aforesaid eye, thus allowing the bolster to freely rock under the body B and follow the rocking motion of out straining the bolster and its connection with the bob. The trunnions c, I prefer to form of metal, and with a shoe or sleeve, d, in which the end of the wooden bolster is inserted, and to which it is secured hybolts passing through said parts, said shoe serving to re-enforce the bolster and rendering the support ofthe body more secure.

Having described my invention, what claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v i l. In a sleigh, the body connected with the bolster by an oscillatory bearing, substantially as set forth.

2. In a sleigh, the combination of the bolster mounted on the bob, and provided with trunnions on its ends and supports secured to the body, and provided with bearings for the trunnions of 'the bolster, substantially asshown and set forth.

3. In a sleigh, the combination, with the Abolster mounted on the bob, of a shoe or sleeve attached to the ends of the bolster, and provided with trunnions standing parallel with the the sleigh withbolster, and'brackets secured to the body, and

provided with bearings for the aforesaid trunnions, substantially as described and shown. In testimony whereof I havehereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 10th day of November, 1883.

WILLIAM H. IVINNE. [L s] VV-itnesses:

l FREDERIcK H. GIBBs,

IV. `CHANDLER RAYMOND. 

